In mutually reflective readings of KierkegaardOCOs foundational texts through the work of three pivotal authorsOCoFranz Kafka, Theodor Adorno, and Rainer Maria RilkeOCoHale shows how each of these writers draws attention to the unwavering sense of human finitude that pervades all of KierkegaardOCOs work and, with it, the profoundly unsettling indeterminacy in which it results."